Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-11 Thread Chris Andrews
> >Make sure you have the following symlinks in your /usr/include > >directory, assuming you're on an x86 machine: > > > >asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/ > >linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ > > Note! You only have to have those symlinks on broken systems such > as Redhat. > >

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Alan Cox: > > Note! You only have to have those symlinks on broken systems such > > as Redhat. > > < 7.0. > 7.0 or higher keeps the glibc includes out of /usr/src I stand corrected. Thanks. Mike. -- Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and qui

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
> He probably removed the original kernel-devel package, > which contained the links above, so they would have to > be remade. Linking them to /usr/src and thus people linking them to current kernel sources while basically harmless is indeed not the preferred approach. So he's right that older RH

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
> >asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/ > >linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ > > Note! You only have to have those symlinks on broken systems such > as Redhat. < 7.0. On RH 6.x you should have a set of 2.2 header includes at /usr/src/linux as required by the dependancies RPM uses. (ke

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread J Sloan
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Note! You only have to have those symlinks on broken systems such > as Redhat. This is silly, Red Hat works fine for a great many people. He probably removed the original kernel-devel package, which contained the links above, so they would have to be remade. > S

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
"Stephen M. Williams" wrote: > > Wow, I had no idea. I was following advice I received a long time ago > from a mailing list. If I remove those symlinks how do I go about > compiling the kernel without receiving the same errors as Srinath? Note that he said distributions such as RedHat (pre 7.

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread M.
Wow, I had no idea. I was following advice I received a long time ago from a mailing list. If I remove those symlinks how do I go about compiling the kernel without receiving the same errors as Srinath? Thanks for the correction, Steve On 10 Mar 2001 18:28:09 +, Miquel van Smoorenbu

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen "M." Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Make sure you have the following symlinks in your /usr/include >directory, assuming you're on an x86 machine: > >asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/ >linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ Note! You only have t

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread M.
Make sure you have the following symlinks in your /usr/include directory, assuming you're on an x86 machine: asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/ linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ If you're using a different archetecture, check the /usr/src/linux/include/ directory and make the link with

Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread Srinath Ravinathan
Hi, I'm trying to compile kernel 2.4.1 on RedHat 6.2 (zoot). After the make xconfig and make dep when I give make bzlilo I get the following error message gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c In file included from /usr/inclu